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This popular BEC series has been completely revised. PASS Cambridge
BEC is a practical course for students who wish to gain a
recognised business English qualification. Focusing on relevant
international business situations, the course has been structured
to provide students with a thorough preparation for the Business
English Certificates (BEC).
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The PASS Cambridge BEC Preliminary Workbook is an important
component of the course. It provides a language-focused supplement
to the Student's Book. Each four-page unit is split into a grammar
and vocabulary section.
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How to improve classroom practice through the application of
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Draws on relevant disciplines, such as physiology and psychology to
improve teachers understanding of how children learn and develop.
It relates teaching to the practical environment of general and
subject-specific teaching policies, OFSTED re-inspection, and the
promotion of competitive sport and the implications for practice.
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If your writing is preventing you from getting the score you need
in IELTS, Collins Writing for IELTS can help. Don't let one skill
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particular part of the exam What is IELTS? The International
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This popular BEC series has been completely revised. PASS Cambridge
BEC is a practical course for students who wish to gain a
recognised business English qualification. Focusing on relevant
international business situations, the course has been structured
to provide students with a thorough preparation for the Business
English Certificates (BEC).
A series which is a model of its kind: Edmund King The wide-ranging
articles collected here represent the cutting edge of recent
Anglo-Norman scholarship. There is a particular focus on historical
sources for the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and especially on
the key texts which are used by historians in understanding the
past. There are articles on Eadmer's Historia Novorum, Dudo of
Saint-Quentin's Historia Normannorum, the historical profession at
Durham, and the use of charters to understand the role of women in
the Norman march of Wales. Other contributions examine canon law in
late twelfth-century England, and Angevin rule in Normandy in the
time of Henry fitz Empress. The Old English world is also
represented in the volume: there is a fresh investigation into
Harold Godwineson's posthumous reputation, and a new interpretation
of the reign of Aethelred the Unready. S.D. CHURCH is Professor of
Medieval History at the University of East Anglia. Contributors:
Emma Cavell, Catherine Cubitt, John Gillingham, Mark Hagger, Fraser
McNair, Charles C. Rozier, Nicholas Ruffini-Ronzani, Danica
Summerlin, Ann Williams
Essays into numerous aspects of the Domesday Book, shedding fresh
light on its mysteries. Compiled from the records of a survey of
the kingdom of England commissioned by William the Conqueror in
1085, Domesday Book is a key source for the history of England.
However, there has never been a critical edition of the textand so,
despite over 200 years of intense academic study, its evidence has
rarely been exploited to the full. The essays in this volume seek
to realize the potential of Domesday Book by focussing on the
manuscript itself. There are analyses of abbreviations, letter
forms, and language; re-assessments of key sources, the role of
tenants-in-chief in producing them, and the nature of the Norman
settlement that their forms illuminate; a re-evaluation of the data
and its referents; and finally, fresh examinations of the afterlife
of the Domesday text and how it was subsequently perceived. In
identifying new categories of evidence and revisiting old ones,
these studies point to a better understanding of the text. There
are surprising insights into its sources and developing programme
and, intriguingly, a system of encoding hitherto unsuspected. In
its turn the import of its data becomes clearer, thereby shedding
new light on Anglo-Norman society and governance. It is in these
terms that this volume offers a departure in Domesday studies and
looks forward to the resolution of long-standing problems that have
hitherto bedevilled the interpretation of an iconic text. David
Roffe and K.S.B. Keats-Rohan are leading Domesday scholars who have
published widely on Domesday Book and related matters.
Contributors: Howard B. Clarke, Sally Harvey, K.S.B. Keats-Rohan,
Andrew Lowerre, John Palmer, David Roffe, Ian Taylor, Pamela
Taylor, Frank Thorn, Ann Williams.
This work explores the lives and literacies of different
generations of people living in Spitalfields and The City at the
end of the 20th century. It contrasts these two square miles of
London, which outwardly symbolize the huge difference between
poverty and wealth existing in Britain at this time. The book
presents a study of living, learning and reading as it has taken
place in public settings, including the school classroom, clubs,
places of worship, theatres, and in the home. Over fifty people
recount their memories of learning to read in different contexts
and circumstances. Eve Gregory and Ann Williams contextualize the
participants' stories and go far to dispel the deep-seated myths
surrounding the teaching and learning of reading and writing in
urban, multicultural areas. The result is both poignant and highly
significant to the study of literacy.
The true importance of cathedrals during the Anglo-Norman period is
here brought out, through an examination of the most important
aspects of their history. Cathedrals dominated the ecclesiastical
(and physical) landscape of the British Isles and Normandy in the
middle ages; yet, in comparison with the history of monasteries,
theirs has received significantly less attention. This volume helps
to redress the balance by examining major themes in their
development between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. These
include the composition, life, corporate identity and memory of
cathedral communities; the relationships, sometimes supportive,
sometimes conflicting, that they had with kings (e.g. King John),
aristocracies, and neighbouring urban and religious communities;
the importance of cathedrals as centres of lordship and patronage;
their role in promoting and utilizing saints' cults (e.g. that of
St Thomas Becket); episcopal relations; and the involvement of
cathedrals in religious and political conflicts, and in the
settlement of disputes. A critical introduction locates medieval
cathedrals in space and time, and against a backdrop of wider
ecclesiastical change in the period. Contributors: Paul Dalton,
Charles Insley, Louise J. Wilkinson, Ann Williams, C.P. Lewis,
RichardAllen, John Reuben Davies, Thomas Roche, Stephen Marritt,
Michael Staunton, Sheila Sweetinburgh, Paul Webster, Nicholas
Vincent
A richly valuable source of knowledge. MEDIUM AEVUM By the time of
the Conquest, the Normans had been established in Normandy for over
a hundred and fifty years. They had transformed themselves from
pagan Northmen into Christian princes; their territories extended
from England, southern Italy and Sicily to distant Antioch, and
their influence had spread throughout western Europe and the
Mediterranean. Duke William's victory at Hastings and the resulting
Anglo-Norman union brought England into the mainstreamof European
history and culture, with far-reaching consequences for Western
civilisation. These specially commissioned studies are concerned
with the achievements of the cross-Channel realm. They make a major
contribution toan understanding of the hundred years that witnessed
great change and major developments in English and Norman
government and society. There are surveys of the two constituent
parts, of Normandy under the Angevin kings, of the place of kingdom
and duchy in the politics and culture of the North Sea, and of the
parallel Norman achievement in the Mediterranean. There are
overviews both of secular administration and of the church, and a
study of "feudalism" and lordship. Within the broad field of
cultural history, there are discussions of language, literature,
the writing of history, and ecclesiastical architecture.
Contributors: LESLEY ABRAMS, MATTHEW BENNETT, MARJORIE CHIBNALL,
CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL, ELISABETH VAN HOUTS, EMMA MASON, RICHARD
PLANT, CASSANDRA POTTS, DANIEL POWER, IAN SHORT, ANN WILLIAMS
Applies a critical and scholarly approach to a topic that has long
commanded attention... Williams's book represents a remarkable
scholarly achievement. THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Most books on
the Norman conquest concentrate on the conquerors, the Norman
settlers who became the ancestors of the medieval English baronage.
This book is different, setting out to examine the experience of
the lesser English lords and landowners, which has been largely
ignored. Ann Williams shows how they survived the conquest and
settlement, adapted to foreign customs, and in the process
preserved native tradition and culture. Though the great earls and
magnates fell with Harold, some of their dependents secured a place
in the entourages of their supplanters, or were too useful to the
royal administration (based largely on English procedure) to be
completely displaced; in the Church, too, a reservoir of English
sentiment survived. The testimony of the Anglo-Norman historians
who chronicled the Conquest, together with other evidence,
including the Domesday Book (based on the English system of local
government), are an important source for our knowledge of how the
lesser aristocracy and the free landholders felt about, and reacted
to, their new masters. Dr ANN WILLIAMS was until her retirement
Senior Lecturer in medieval history at the Polytechnic of North
London.
Anglo-Norman Studies is nothing if not wide-ranging. One opens each
new volume expecting to find the unexpected - new light on old
arguments, new material, new angles. MEDIUM AEVUM This year's
volume continues to demonstrate the vitality of scholarship in this
area, across a variety of disciplines. Topics include the forging
of the Battle Abbey Chronicle; warring schoolmasters in
eleventh-century Rouen; theimpact of the Conquest on England; the
circulation of manuscripts between England and Normandy; and Earl
Harold and the Foundation of Waltham Holy Cross. Contributors:
Julie Barrau, Christopher Clark, Laura Cleaver, Stefan de Jong,
Simon Keynes, Tom Licence, Brigitte Meijns, Thomas O'Donnell,
Alheydis Plassman, Elisabeth Ridel, Chris Whittick, Ann Williams
This book aims to put right the fact that there is a dearth of texts written specifically for primary school teachers, which provides information about key issues and current research evidence in ways which are comprehensible to a non-specialist and which guide practice. The ability to use research evidence to improve and inform practice is now a requirement for the award of QTS.
Increase your knowledge of vocabulary with Collins Vocabulary for
IELTS and get the score you need. IELTS is the world's leading test
of English for higher education and migration and is recognised by
6000 institutions in over 135 countries. Collins Vocabulary for
IELTS is a self-study book for learners of English who plan to take
the Academic module of the IELTS test. This book is an ideal tool
for learners studying at CEF level B1 or above or with a band score
5-5.5 who are aiming for a band score of 6 or higher. Key IELTS
vocabulary and its usage are presented using Collins COBUILD
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test questions by doing the Practice exam section at the end of
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The relationship between Anglo-Saxon kingship, law, and the
functioning of power is explored via a number of different angles.
The essays collected here focus on how Anglo-Saxon royal authority
was expressed and disseminated, through laws, delegation,
relationships between monarch and Church, and between monarchs at
times of multiple kingships and changing power ratios. Specific
topics include the importance of kings in consolidating the English
"nation"; the development of witnesses as agents of the king's
authority; the posthumous power of monarchs; how ceremonial
occasions wereused for propaganda reinforcing heirarchic, but
mutually beneficial, kingships; the implications of Ine's lawcode;
and the language of legislation when English kings were ruling
previously independent territories, and the delegation of local
rule. The volume also includes a groundbreaking article by Simon
Keynes on Anglo-Saxon charters, looking at the origins of written
records, the issuing of royal diplomas and the process,
circumstances, performance and function of production of records.
GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture at the
University of Manchester. Contributors: Ann Williams, Alexander R.
Rumble, Carole Hough, Andrew Rabin, Barbara Yorke, Ryan Lavelle,
Alaric Trousdale
The first dictionary of medieval terms intended for the
non-specialist with an interest in the medieval world. An interest
in the middle ages often brings the non-specialist reader up short
against a word or term which is not understood or only imperfectly
understood. This dictionary is intended to put an end to all that:
it has been designed to be of real help to general readers and
specialists alike. The dictionary contains some 3,400 terms as
headwords, ranging from the legal and ecclesiastic to the more
prosaic words of daily life. Latin was the language of the church,
law and government, and many Latin terms illustrated here are
frequently found in modern books of history of the period;
similarly, the precise meaning of Old English and Middle English
terms may elude today's reader: this dictionary endeavours to
provide clarity. In addition to definition, etymologies of many
words are given, in the belief that knowing the origin and
evolution of a word gives a better understanding. There are also
examples of medieval terms and phrases still in use today, a
further aid to clarifying meaning. CHRISTOPHER COREDON has also
compiled the Dictionary of Cybernyms. Dr ANN WILLIAMS, historical
consultant on the project, was until her retirement Senior Lecturer
in medieval history at the Polytechnic of North London.
Essays into numerous aspects of the Domesday Book, shedding fresh
light on its mysteries. Compiled from the records of a survey of
the kingdom of England commissioned by William the Conqueror in
1085, Domesday Book is a key source for the history of England.
However, there has never been a critical edition of the textand so,
despite over 200 years of intense academic study, its evidence has
rarely been exploited to the full. The essays in this volume seek
to realize the potential of Domesday Book by focussing on the
manuscript itself. There are analyses of abbreviations, letter
forms, and language; re-assessments of key sources, the role of
tenants-in-chief in producing them, and the nature of the Norman
settlement that their forms illuminate; a re-evaluation of the data
and its referents; and finally, fresh examinations of the afterlife
of the Domesday text and how it was subsequently perceived. In
identifying new categories of evidence and revisiting old ones,
these studies point to a better understanding of the text. There
are surprising insights into its sources and developing programme
and, intriguingly, a system of encoding hitherto unsuspected. In
its turn the import of its data becomes clearer, thereby shedding
new light on Anglo-Norman society and governance. It is in these
terms that this volume offers a departure in Domesday studies and
looks forward to the resolution of long-standing problems that have
hitherto bedevilled the interpretation of an iconic text. DAVID
ROFFE and K.S.B. KEATS-ROHAN are leading Domesday scholars who have
published widely on Domesday Book and related matters.
This book includes the post-conference proceedings of the 23rd
RoboCup International Symposium, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, in
July 2019. The 38 full revised papers and 14 invited papers
presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 74
submissions. This book highlights the approaches of champion teams
from the competitions and documents the proceedings of the 23rd
annual RoboCup International Symposium. Due to the complex research
challenges set by the RoboCup initiative, the RoboCup International
Symposium offers a unique perspective for exploring scientific and
engineering principles underlying advanced robotic and AI systems.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th
International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2012, held in
Chengdu, China, in October 2012.
The 66 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected
from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical
sections on affective and cognitive sciences for socially
interactive robots, situated interaction and embodiment, robots to
assist the elderly and persons with disabilities, social acceptance
of robots and their impact to the society, artificial empathy, HRI
through non-verbal communication and control, social telepresence
robots, embodiments and networks, interaction and collaboration
among robots, humans and environment, human augmentation,
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